Implementation of haptic communication in comanipulative tasks: a statistical state machine model

TL;DR

This study investigates physical human-human communication in lightweight tasks using a robotized setup, proposing a statistical state machine model based on time correlation, which closely mimics human performance.

Contribution

It introduces a novel statistical state machine model for physical human-human communication based on time, validated through experiments with 14 subjects.

Findings

Model closely replicates human-human communication performance

Time-based communication hypothesis supported by experimental data

Potential applications in human-robot interaction systems

Abstract

- This paper presents an experimental evaluation of physical human-human interaction in lightweight condition using a one degree of freedom robotized setup. It explores possible origins of Physical Human-Human communication, more precisely, the hypothesis of a time based communication. To explore if the communication is correlated to time a statistical state machine model based on physical Human-Human interaction is proposed. The model is tested with 14 subjects and presents results that are close to human-human performances.